Ctenophore collected during the Exploring Pelagic Biodiversity of the Gulf of Alaska and the Impact of its Seamounts expedition. It may not look like it, but this comb jelly (Beroe abyssicola) is a voracious predator that feeds on other gelatinous organisms by engulfing them whole.
Ctenophore
Image courtesy of Allen Collins, NOAA Fisheries National Systematic Laboratory and Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
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Ctenophore collected during the Exploring Pelagic Biodiversity of the Gulf of Alaska and the Impact of its Seamounts expedition. It may not look like it, but this comb jelly (Beroe abyssicola) is a voracious predator that feeds on other gelatinous organisms by engulfing them whole.